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‘Draw Something’ studio OMGPOP reportedly shuttered amid Zynga layoffs — One year ago, Zynga paid $180 million for OMGPOP, the creator of the wildly popular game Draw Something for iOS and Android. Zynga seems to have decided that was a $180 million mistake.
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| Agam Shah / PC World: |
Intel shows first smartphone with Merrifield chip — Intel on Tuesday showed the first smartphone based on its next Atom smartphone chip code-named Merrifield, which will provide better performance and battery life than current Atom chips. — The Merrifield chip will offer 50 percent better performance … | Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
The U is for Ultrabook: Intel's low-power, dual-core Haswell CPUs unveiled — The U is actually for “Ultra-low voltage,” but either way we're looking at laptop CPUs. — Intel — On Saturday, Intel officially took the wraps off its first next-generation desktop and laptop CPUs based on the “Haswell” architecture.
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Salesforce.com Makes Its Biggest Acquisition Yet, Buys ExactTarget for $2.5 Billion — Salesforce.com just announced that it will make its biggest acquisition yet: It will spend $2.5 billion to acquire the cloud marketing company ExactTarget. — Salesforce is paying $33.75 a share.| Tim Culpan / Bloomberg: |
HTC Operations Chief Steps Down as Profit Slumps on Phone Delays — HTC Corp. (2498) Chief Operating Officer Matthew Costello will step down after less than three years at Taiwan's biggest smartphone maker amid slumping sales that have pushed down shares 76 percent in the past two years.
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook NY Signs 10-Year Lease To Move Into ~100K Sq Ft Office With 2X Space — After weeks of rumors, Facebook has just signed a 10-year lease to move its New York office into a new, nearly 100,000-square-foot space over two floors at 770 Broadway in Manhattan.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Begins Offering In-Store iPhone 5 Display Replacements for $149 — As part of a shift to lower repair costs, Apple has begun replacing iPhone 5 screens at its retail locations. The new display replacement service is priced at $149 and can be purchased with or without AppleCare+.| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Acer's flagship Aspire S7 may be 2013's ultrabook to beat, S3 needs low price to succeed — At Acer's press conference in Taipei yesterday, the company announced some very welcome changes to one of our favorite ultrabooks of 2012: the Aspire S7. Our two primarily complaints with the machine …
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Apple denies conspiracy in ebook pricing trial: “Publishers fought [us] tooth and nail” — The Department of Justice's trial against Apple kicked off in New York Monday. The DOJ alleges that Apple conspired with publishers to set ebook prices, while Apple argues that there was no conspiracy … | Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
IBM to Acquire Cloud Services Company SoftLayer — Computing giant IBM just made another move in its quest to becoming the biggest provider of cloud computing services. It said it will acquire SoftLayer, a privately held cloud services player based in Dallas. — Financial terms are not being disclosed.
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Dell refreshes its XPS 12 Ultrabook, XPS 27 all-in-one and XPS 8500 desktop — Now that it's unveiled its next-gen Ultrabook, Dell's taking the opportunity to refresh the machines it's already got. Starting with the XPS 12 convertible Ultrabook, the company is adding an NFC chip …
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Obama Plans to Take Action Against Patent-Holding Firms — WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama on Tuesday will announce a set of executive actions aimed at reining in certain patent-holding firms, known as “patent trolls” to their detractors, amid concerns that the firms are abusing the patent system and disrupting competition.
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| Edward Wyatt / New York Times: |
Susan Molinari Adds to Google's Political Firepower — WASHINGTON — Susan Molinari had wrapped up her second week as Google's chief Washington lobbyist when she got a call at home late on a Friday that blindsided her: the Federal Communications Commission was fining Google $25,000 for having …
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| Tim Schiesser / Neowin: |
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 chip coming soon to Windows RT 8.1 devices — Qualcomm has announced today that their high-end Snapdragon 800 chipset will be shipping in Windows RT 8.1 devices “later this year”, becoming the third chipset - alongside NVIDIA's Tegra 3 and Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 - that supports the platform.
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Qualcomm, GigaOM, The Droid Guy, HEXUS.net Latest Content, SlashGear, Ubergizmo and Engadget. Tweets: @anandshimpi
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| Amar Toor / The Verge: |
Chicago Sun-Times trains reporters to shoot with iPhones after laying off all its photographers — The Chicago Sun-Times this week laid off all 28 of its staff photographers, and has reportedly begun training its remaining reporters on “iPhone photography basics.”
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| Steve Ranger / ZDNet: |
Online throttling and site-blocking to be outlawed in Europe under net neutrality plan — Summary: We will guarantee access to the full and open internet on every device, on every network, says the EU's digital chief. — Steve Ranger — ISPs will be barred from blocking …
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EU Press Room, The Register, Hillicon Valley, Softpedia News, Inquirer and AllThingsD
| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
NVIDIA CEO demos new stylus touchscreen tech, uses Tegra 4 image processing to reduce battery drain — Elaborating from the battery-saving PRISM screen tech that we saw on Tegra 3 devices, the NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang showed off a new software-based touchscreen technology that allows …
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Lenovo planning smartphone venture in expansion drive — (Reuters) - China's Lenovo Group Ltd, the world's No.2 PC maker, is in detailed discussions on a smartphone venture with NEC Corp, a Japanese partner in PCs whose mobile business is faltering, as it eyes partnerships and acquisitions to expand in high-growth markets.| Lilly Vitorovich / Wall Street Journal: |
Europe Is Losing the 4G Race — Once a Pioneer in Cellphone Technology, the Region Trails Asia and the U.S. as Regulation Threatens Network Investment — Vodafone said it will boost its network investment in its home market. Pictured, a company store in London| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Toshiba intros three Android tablets, two with Tegra 4 and a 2,560 x 1,600 screen — Could three times be a charm for Toshiba? After striking out with its “Thrive” Android tablets and then coming up a bit short with the “Excite” line, the company is completely scrapping its tablet lineup and replacing it with three new models.
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